Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Hays,

One of the few things which would deter me from UK joining the Euro-zone would be that Blair was in favour of it.

Models are only a representative distillate of a reality and if the reality is fluid then the model should also be “flexible” and “representative” of the processes being considered.
(A map is not the country.)

Also, the value of the models are the often based on the interpretations given and as one can see, can be very subjective.


However, even without a definite model, I foresee whatever a Europhobic group believe the Euro-zone and Euro currency will exist in 10, 20 and 30 years time.

There will be greater fiscal, legal and political integration. Also, there will be greater restraints on the Financial Services and Banks which have been partially responsible for the present chaos.

I think way back before 2007 I wrote that there was a necessity for greater fiscal integration in the Eurozone and criticised the rush to expand the number of the participating countries, before clarifying the rules. The rush to expand was, I thought, encouraged by the UK for various self interested reasons.

You can't make the model flexible. There is far too much work to alter it as it is used. It does allow for internal and external economic shocks though.

Then it is flexible.

Not really.

8-())

Hays,

Reference to Euro-zone . I should have said "euro-zone and euro" will still exist in one form, or another.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18974351

You have probably read it, but it is an interesting summary of a present situation of the credit rating by Robert Peston.

Peston is a bit too left wing for me.

8-)

Hi everybody, been on holiday for two and a half weeks, what happens 'Gobshite of the Year (recurring)' has managed to weave his evil spell once again, even Aldrick (or was that Aids) has given up on that magnetic poster that we all know affectionally as our Freddie. Before I went away I promised to turn over a new leaf and not swear, seems I no longer need to,The Twxt is back (sounds great to music). DC your the man captured the left wing pillock in all his glory, Chuckles you have him worked out to a tee. Thing is guys we all know he is a complete knob! Leave him be, let him rant his deluded never ending speel, just don't bite. Poor Welsh pillock is more to be pitied than laughed at! Life really is to short :O)

You do have an art with words Chris. Luv it.

Spot the error

You must be my date!

Or upside down.

But he does look younger.

London ZLOZ

Tom Daley Twitter abuse: Police arrest boy in Weymouth

A teenager has been arrested by police investigating abuse of Team GB diver Tom Daley on Twitter.

After coming fourth in the men's synchronised 10m platform diving event on Monday, the 18-year-old received a message telling him he had let down his father.

Daley's father Rob died in 2011 from brain cancer.

Daft.

Arctic sea-ice levels hit record low

Faster climate change rate than expected.

As much as climate may be changing, we are only now heading back to te temperatures of the Roman era. Don't forget the 'Little Ice Age' that occurred after the 'Medieval Warm Period'. Farms and villages in the Swiss Alps were destroyed by encroaching glaciers during the mid-17th century. Canals and rivers in Great Britain and the Netherlands were frequently frozen deeply enough to support ice skating and winter festivals. The first River Thames frost fair was in 1607 and the last in 1814. There was even a little ice age in Central America and Africa.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/feb/23/world-headed-toward-mini-ice-age/

February 23, 2012

A report released at the end of January by British climate scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit showed that the Earth’s average temperatures have dropped to the same levels seen back in 1997 before the so-called “big warmup.”

The average global temperature in 2011 was 0.68 degrees above normal. In the previous decade, the average temperature on this planet was 0.81 degrees above normal.

The British scientists agree with many Russian and Japanese climate scientists that the world could be headed toward a mini ice age sometime in the near future.

The new climate study suggests that the next significant cycle of cooling may rival the 70-year period in the mid-1600s that saw “frost fairs” held each winter season in London on the Thames River, which froze solid in January and February.

'Quiet traffic' - quiet retailers.

Olympics 'hits London retailers as shoppers stay away'

Shops in central London saw a sharp drop in visitors at the start of the Olympic Games, figures have suggested.

The number of people going to stores on Friday ahead of the opening ceremony were 10.4% lower than a year ago, said research group Experian.

It added that customer footfall levels then fell a further 11.7% on Saturday.

Olympic sailing 'not benefiting Weymouth retailers'

Retailers have complained that Weymouth, which is hosting the London 2012 sailing events with neighbouring Portland, is a lot quieter than they expected it to be for the opening of the Games.

Sorta makes you proud (not) to be British - London 2012 Olympics venues still showing empty seats – in pictures